Toolkits

The Energy Balance Work Group at MD Anderson Cancer Center worked with local partners and healthcare professionals to develop the Healthy Congregations Toolkit. We are pleased to share this with you and hope that it is helpful in assisting you with incorporating healthy programs within your institution.

The Toolkit focuses on "energy balance," or the way to eat well (energy intake) and being physically active (energy output) for better health.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Melanoma Moon Shot Program and Cancer Prevention and Control Platform
seek to develop and implement community-based efforts related to the prevention and early
detection of skin cancer, specifically melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. These two teams
collaborated to develop the Skin Cancer Prevention Toolkit For Institutions of Higher Education. The toolkit is designed to assist college and university leaders in adopting, implementing and enforcing skin cancer prevention campus policies and practices.

The tools and materials provided in this toolkit support and explain the benefits and rationale for a 100% Indoor Tanning-Free Campus Policy, a Sun Protection Campus Policy, and skin cancer prevention education and health services activities. This toolkit also provides resources and tips on drafting, enforcing, communicating and evaluating policy.

On behalf of the City of Houston/Harris County Community Transformation Initiative, the Comprehensive Cancer Control Tobacco Work Group at MD Anderson Cancer Center created a Houston/Harris County Tobacco Task Force (Task Force) to serve as a place for collaboration, resource development, and technical assistance to address tobacco use among college campus populations. The Houston Department of Health & Human Services received a planning award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to build capacity to support healthy lifestyles in Harris County. The award targets tobacco-free living, active living and healthy eating, quality clinical and other preventive services, and social and emotional wellness.

The work group was charged with lending their expertise to the development of a Tobacco Task Force Toolkit. The purpose of the Toolkit is to provide a coordinated strategic framework for institutions of higher education in Houston/Harris County to develop and or strengthen their current campus tobacco policy.

Educational Posters in English and Spanish

Texas Cancer Information (TCI) collaborates with the Texas Medical Association (TMA) to produce English/Spanish educational posters with the dual purpose of educating health professionals and the public. TCI’s educational posters are distributed to Texas physicians as inserts in the Texas Medical Association’s publication, Texas Medicine. TCI also responds to requests from physicians, other health care professionals and community groups for TCI brochures and educational posters for distribution to the general public through their offices or community health fairs.

The following are examples of some of the posters TCI has prepared over the past few years. The posters are in PDF format and you may download and print them for your own use or distribution. Larger format originals of some of these posters are available at no charge in limited quantities for distribution within Texas. If you would like to request posters or TCI brochures for yourself, your patients or clients or for a community event, please contact TCI at info@texascancer.info or 713-792-2277.